Tuesdays with Dorie: Chocolate Chunkers

This week’s recipe was chosen by Claudia at Fool for Food. It can also be found on pg. 70 of Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan.

Mike, Bo, and I traveled up north this weekend because both Mike and I had dentist appointments. Bo had fun staying with his Grandma and Grandpa while Mike and I had our teeth cleaned!

When I saw this recipe, I knew I would have to wait until after we came back to make these, because the recipe called for “premium” chocolate. When I think of premium chocolate there is only one place I think of — Graham’s. Yumm-o! Besides, there’s nothing more exciting than combine a dentist visit with chocolate! Dentists love it when we eat tons of sweets!

While I worked and Bo napped, Mike made the Graham’s run for all of the chocolate that is needed for these heavy duty cookies.

On Sunday night, Mike and I tackled making the cookies after Bo was in bed. First, I measured out the dry ingredients and melted the chocolate with butter for the dough part of the chunker.

I blended the eggs, sugar, and vanilla. Then I added the melted chocolate mixture, and finally, I added the dry ingredients. All in my lovely, KitchenAid. God’s gift — I’m tellin‘ ya.
Mike was a sweetheart and chopped the chocolate and peanuts for me. Since these are chunkers, I needed chunks. Oh, the irony.
Finally, I was able to combine all of the crunchies and the dough to make a very rich looking cookie dough. I scooped heaping tablespoons onto the cookie sheets and shoved these bad boys into the oven.
I ended up with some really chocolatey chunkers!! These are RICH!! Definitely a cookie you’ll want a big glass of milk with!! I couldn’t eat more than one. Mike had two and said, “These aren’t a cookie, they’re a meal.” I asked if I could quote him. Of course, he said yes.

8 thoughts on “Tuesdays with Dorie: Chocolate Chunkers

  1. your cookie post is great, but that masthead photo almost made me cry. i remember when my kids were little and into everything — what a wonderful baby.

  2. So sweet that your husband helped out. Mine gets panicky when I chop things since I’m a little accident prone. These cookies are SO rich and beg to be served with milk. Great job!

  3. Oh yeah, these are good stuff. And you are right – is there anything better than a KA?? (I mean, other than our biys, who, BTW, cry more than the KA)

  4. Wow. That looks delicious. I’ll have to come back and try it when I’m overcome with the inevitable chocolate fix.

  5. I agree with Mike – these are definitely a meal. Very very rich. And I’m sure something your dentist approves of 🙂

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